Sesame Street's 'Galli Galli Sim Sim' introduces new characters

The TV show has introduced new human starcast namely Aamir, Doctor Didi, Pia Aunty who will engage children with stories

With three new human characters and a new muppet, educational show 'Galli Galli Sim Sim' is back with an all new season aiming to reach a bigger and wider audience.

The TV show has introduced new human starcast namely Aamir, Doctor Didi, Pia Aunty who are set to engage children with stories and teach them about sharing, making friends, healthy habits and task persistence.

The characters also aim to play catalysts as adults to provide strategies to children to help them deal with emotions, conflict etc.

The show which began in in the year 2006 has now introduced new segments like the 'Bert and Ernie animation segment', which focuses on pre-numeracy skills.

The 2-minute segment teaches children various pre-numeracy and number concepts like matching, classification, one to one correspondence, relational concepts, shapes and number conservation.

"We have got animation in the show. This is the seventh season and new segments have been introduced in the show," says Sashwati Banerjee, MD of Sesame Workshop India.

Another segment 'I love Elmo' has been conceived with a thought of helping children make meaningful connections to their everyday experiences, specifically, by providing them strategies to help them understand feelings and provide vocabulary to articulate and cope with different feelings in different situations.

The issues addressed in this section include feelings and emotions like fear, anger, jealousy, etc; coping with difficult situations like bullying or saying no; social interactions and planning.

To give the children a strong base and to build up the vocabulary and develop literacy and language skills, a new segment 'Word on the Street' has been introduced. The character 'Grover' introduces a word and meets different people to ask them the meaning and demonstrate the application of the word. The funny and interactive segment tends to educate children in a light mood.

One of the main attraction of the show is 'Raya'- Global Wash Muppet, who has featured with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New York.

Raya is the hygiene and sanitation ambassador and would be seen recommending healthy habits like wearing slippers while going, washing hands after using the toilet and washing all raw foods before eating.